TB progress set back a decade by COVID-19 – WHO
Ruth Douglas and Gareth Willmer More than half a million people may have died last year as a result of reductions in TB diagnosis and care, setting back […]
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Certification schemes are greenwashing forest destruction
Certified companies, including with the widely-known FSC label, are reportedly linked to forest destruction, land disputes and human rights abuses warns a new report […]
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Cities need to plan for accommodating people displaced by climate change
In the next three decades, it is expected, humanity would have turned an exclusively urban species. By then almost 80 to 90 percent of […]
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Discovering Hoolock Gibbons in Assam
Benjamin Kaman A new subspecies of the western hoolock gibbon has been described recently from northeastern India, which has been named the Mishmi Hills […]
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Rich nations blocking quick COVID vaccine access by poor countries
Rich nations vaccinating one person every second while majority of the poorest nations are yet to give a single dose One year on from […]
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Tourism, corruption threaten world’s largest freshwater lake
Vitaliy Ryabtsev Since Siberia’s Baikal Lake became a popular destination, a booming industry catering to holiday goers, mainly from China, is eating away at […]
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Why tackling malnutrition is key to women’s empowerment
Emma Feutl Kent & Atalanti Moquette Now is the time to commit to women and girl’s nutrition, advocates urge on International Women’s Day. Disruptions […]
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Why South Africa needs a new water agency
Mike Muller Water infrastructure takes many years to plan and build and needs to be structured as a multi-year operation. But the planning and […]
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Coronavirus Deranges the Immune System in Complex and Deadly Ways
Liz Szabo Scientists say unprepared immune cells appear to be responding to the coronavirus with a devastating release of chemicals, inflicting damage that may […]
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Internet shutdowns shatter dreams, endanger lives
From Belarus to Bangladesh, authorities in 29 countries shut down or interfered with the internet at least 155 times in 2020. On a day-to-day basis, this prevented millions of people […]
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WHO: 1 in 4 people projected to have hearing problems by 2050
The report, launched ahead of World Hearing Day on 3 March, underlines the need to rapidly step up efforts to prevent and address hearing […]
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It’s time to set up a US–China Decarbonisation Working Group
Giridharan Ramasubramanian The climate ambitions of the US and China are converging, offering an opportunity to develop new engagement based on decarbonisation resident Biden […]
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Mexico’s Decision to Ban Glyphosate Has Rocked the Agribusiness World
Timothy A. Wise GM corn presidential decree comes despite intense pressure from industry, U.S. authorities. Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador quietly rocked the […]
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Impacts of COVID-19: Food Security under threat in Indonesia
Kurnia Dwi Agustina Studies coming out on the impact of COVID-19 point that food security is under an immense threat and farmers are on […]
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Eye health ‘key to SDGs’
Louise Coghlin Vision, quality of life, the economy and development are all so interconnected that eye health should be reframed as a mainstream part […]
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12 years and counting: Pollution control investment at Bosnia’s Ugljevik coal plant still showing no results
Ioana Ciuta Upgrades to the coal power plants in the Western Balkans that would bring down sulphur dioxide emissions are rare. But even where […]
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Love It or Lose It campaign calls on people to love nature so it doesn’t disappear
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) launched a national brand marketing campaign across the U.S. declaring 2021 as a crucial year to show your love for […]
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Argentine municipalities embrace agroecology
Jorgelina Hiba A network of municipalities in Argentina is reimagining an agricultural production model based on industrial inputs, encouraging a new relationship between farming, […]
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Study Finds Climate Crisis Driving Great White Sharks Into Colder Waters, With Devastating Effect on Wildlife
Brett Wilkins Warming oceans—a key measure of the climate crisis—are forcing great white sharks into colder waters, where they are causing a devastating decrease […]
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Comment: The lurking danger of India’s dying dams and failing reservoirs
J Harsha Current projections of surface water security for India are outdated and inaccurate with crisis looming in the 21st century t is very […]
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Insights on China’s 2021 white paper on international development cooperation
Anthea Mulakala and Hongbo Ji China’s tradition of demand-driven assistance has created the impression of a jumble of scattered projects without coherence. However, the white […]
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Breast cancer has overtaken lung cancer as the world’s mostly commonly-diagnosed cancer
WHO and the cancer community are responding with renewed urgency to address breast cancer and to respond to the growing cancer burden globally that […]
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Global fisheries and aquaculture hard hit by COVID-19 pandemic
Global fisheries and aquaculture have been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and could face further disruption in 2021 as lockdowns affect supply and […]
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Climate crisis is foundation of Indian farmers’ protests
Omair Ahmad The current protests by Indian farmers against the passage of three laws have deep roots in income insecurity, which is driven by […]
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